Environmental Exposure and Health

Section 1: Air exposure modelling and assessment Stochastic air quality analysis; Population exposure to atmospheric pollutants: the influence of urban structure; Comparison of fine particulate matter and ozone levels in zip code areas of New York City with different child asthma burdens; Outdoor measurements of airborne emission of staphylococci from a broiler barn and its predictability by dispersion models; Relating air quality and environmental public health tracking data Section 2: Indoor air quality and exposure Standard guide for building indoor dispersion analysis, modeling and health effect assessment; Multiple chemical sensitivity as a result of exposure to heterogeneous air pollutants; Study of the impacts of environmental tobacco smoke and respirable suspended particulate matter on the respiratory health of adults; Orientated PM10 measurements with a high volume sampler in a turkey barn Section 3: Emerging water contaminants: environmental fate and health effects Emerging drinking water disinfection by products and new health issues; Chloramination techniques to reduce NDMA formation during Disinfection; Potential enhanced N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) formation under water treatment conditions; Fate and transformation of quinoxaline N'N' dioxide antibacterial agents during chlorination; Removal of emerging trace contaminants by nanofiltration membranes Section 4: Exposure-dose reconstruction Reconstruction and forecasting of human internal dose for cases of accidental pollution with long-living radionuclides; A dose reconstruction of air emissions from the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Oak Ridge TN, using historic air monitoring and emission data; Identification of contaminant sources in a water-distribution system using an optimization-simulation method; Linking activity-travel analysis and exposure assessment: benefits and challenges; Reconstructing historical contamination events: use of computational tools to assist environmental engineers and health scientists Section 5: Biomarkers in exposure studies A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the analysis of biomarkers of acrylamide exposure; Assessing human exposure to acrylamide; Assessment of l transgenic fish as a new model for UV mutagenesis; Hepatitis B virus co-infection is less common in HIV positive Indian patients Section 6: Chemical mixtures and exposure Exposure to contaminant mixtures at US hazardous waste sites; Interaction profiles for simple mixtures: mixtures with radioactive chemicals; Distribution of immunoglobulins A, G and M among individuals living in communities potentially exposed to low-level environmental exposures; The role of apples in the PCDD/F daily dietary intake; Handling of high potency drugs: process and containment Section 7: Health risk analysis Assessment of risk from exposure to soil particles in playgrounds in Madrid, Spain; Spatially-explicit wildlife exposure modeling tools for use in human health and ecological risk assessment: SEEM and FISHRAND-migration; An environmental risk assessment using CalTOX; Human health risk from trihalomethanes in drinking water evaluation with fuzzy aggregation; Health risk analysis for a contaminated industrial site: pre and post remediation scenarios; Geographic information system-based selection of health risks for waterborne disease resulting from environmental exposure to wastewater Section 8: Exposure monitoring and modelling Quantitative assessment of human exposure - UVA radiation; Trans,trans,-muconic acid in occupational exposure modeling; Potential arsenic exposures to children associated with in-service and recycled CCA-treated wood in tropical environments; Environmental exposure of thallium and potential health risk in an area of high natural concentrations of thallium: southwest Guizhou, China Section 9: Environmental impact and exposure Impact of closure of a large lead-zinc smelter on elevated blood lead levels of children in adj